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The pictures of Xi and Kim side by side during the state welcoming ceremony for Xi in Kim Il Sung Square in the traditional North Korean Baekdu bloodline style surprised me.

Good morning everyone.

On Becoming Israel

Looks like the bill to integrate the US military and the IDF will pass. Pro-Israel voices win out, kill bill to stop US-Israel military integration, with statements (lies) like Israel is the only democracy in the region. Let's face it folks, the Zionists own our government. They are even considering giving IDF soldiers full US veteran benefits. I guess we plan to become genocidal maniacs ourselves. We're well on the way. Human life doesn't mean much to the US military. We're still blowing up fishing boats claiming they are running drugs. "Besides being clearly illegal under both US and international law, the bombing campaign has also failed at stemming the flow of drugs to the US, according to a recent report from The New York Times." The US used to pretend to adhere to international law, but now we don't even offer a pretense, like Israel we are a law unto ourselves.

Afternoon folks!

We've got some great stuff this week, starting with Chicago blues guitarist Jimmy Rogers, followed by a 60's era James Cotton album and an 80's comeback album from piano player and songwriter Tommy Tucker. Following that is an album of live vault recordings of British blues band Chicken Shack. Finishing off is an album from California prog rock/psychedelic band Love.

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!

Good morning, good people! I hope your day/weekend is going great!

Well, some "good news" in the event you are sort of stocking up your food pantries for the likely hard times to come. Walmart, Kraft, and Nabisco announced they were lowering their prices because their typical customers were going broke before the end of the month. While it keeps them up and running our food supply with minimal profit, to them, the end of their existence is when they lose their shoppers. Something is better than nothing. It isn't altruism. They are not kind corporations.

On Wednesday, The State Bar of Texas offered a free PDF download of how to retire. Retirement must comport with 7 Rules of Professional Conduct, formerly know as The Rules of Professional Ethics. They changed the name, likely due to the younger generation not knowing the actual meaning of ethics.

There are 7 rules. Only 1 applies if you just finish your cases and stop taking new ones. So, I am finishing up what I have on the books. Should be done by August or September. I will have no partial retainers to refund, and since I intend to keep my license for 5 more years, I do not have to give hundreds of people notices, do not have to even announce a retirement. All I have to do is just finish up all trials, stop being talked into taking new cases, and if no clients want their files back on closed cases, after 5 years I can just destroy all files and be done with it.

Some lawyers put their files in their attics. Others pay to have them shredded. But others may just take some scissors and cut them up and put them in separate garbage bags so that no documents can be read top to bottom, and, of course, there is always the burn pile. Since I will be practicing from home, online, doing deeds and wills, I will have no retirement to announce.

August? September? Maybe...

It has been rainy all week, not particularly hot, lots of deer action, and rabbits, and a few mosquitoes, which I wonder if they have been genetically modified by Gates, et. al.

A pleasant and unusually cool spring and summer for us. I will take it!

Some music we cooked by last night: